finally got In Nomine

[Racsoviale]

So a few months ago I asked here about some beginners tips, regarding inflation and other stuff that can be hard to grasp when you have France and Russia allying and breathing down you neck.

The main advice I got from people was "get the expansions"

Now I finally bought In nomine and Napoleons Ambition on steam few days ago and have been playing EU 3 all time. I agree the expansions bring a lot of more stuff to the game, I particular like the national missions, which gives some objectives, and if im not mistaking its nation and historical specific mission.

It seems inflation is still my nemesis, and and bit harder to bring down in the expansions. I tried a few games as Brandenburg in the hopes of forming Prussia, then Germany, but I got my ass kicked by a nasty Burgundian-Austrian alliance fairly early. The new Holy Roman Emperor feature(the emperor is sort of an extra ally to members) gives a nice feel, and makes the german area an even bigger political headache.I love it.

After three failed attempts at Brandenburg(one of them though never really got started since after the games first slider change towards centralization it spawned 8k pretender rebels) I tried with Denmark, its always nice to have an excuse to beat the crap out of the Swedish
and that game got of a little better, I now lead a personal union with Norway, Sweden and Holstein, and have pommerania and Hesse as vassals and Bremen is a part of the kingdom. And when the truce expires im ready to annex Mecklenburg(i got the mission where i have to control a COT)
Unfortunately after the Holstein succession war with Pommerania, i didnt annex vorpommeren, so I now have a two province vassal, which if im reading the game right, cant get diplo-annexed.

The reason that I vassalized Hesse was because they were Holy Roman Emperor at the time, and I thought that maybe I could control the emperor if I made them a vassal. I doesnt work that way, the title transfered to saxony after vassalization.

One thing that annoyed me, and that I can see is very different, is the spies ability to fabricate claims. In vanilla you got a core where you undertook the mission thereby giving you a permanent casus beli. Now you only get a casus beli for a short period. I find that a bit frustrating since gaining cores elsewhere seems to be very hard suddenly, and can only be achieved by accident(border dispute) or the mission where you get a core if you annex the territory.

Maybe im still too new to understand that change, and maybe it was overpowered in vanilla. I dont know.

But overall i really like all the changes, I especially like all the new advisors, master of mint i love you. lucky nations also seem like a god way of making the game feel fresh, although i think im too early into the game to see the proper effects.


So yeah, i dont really know what this thread is about, but i think its only fair to give some feedback to the people who helped me earlier and suggested i got the expansion.s

 

[Rub'Rum]

Now get Heir to the Throne, the new expansion! AH!

 

[Tee Kay]

For the HRE, you can't just take the Emperor title by force, you have to earn it. Normally you have to influence the electors to +200 relations, as well as keeping your reputation low, and you may have to have royal marriages with them, etc. What you should do is not vassalize the Emperor but vassalize the electors. You are almost certainly guaranteed the votes of electors who are your vassals as long as you have positive relations with them. Once the emperor dies, the ruler with the most electors supporting him becomes the new Emperor. If you have three or four elector-vassals, the office of Emperor pretty much becomes de facto hereditary (unless you're unlucky enough to get a Regency Council, of course).

 

[Racsoviale]

Now get Heir to the Throne, the new expansion! AH!

yeah i sort of noticed, but didnt think much more about it. But basically I saw a gold edition(?) with the original and the two expansions on steam and bought it. It was only afterwards I saw the third one.

oh well, at least I can get used to all the new changes in the first two expansions.

So I screwed up with Denmark too, and now i have gotten tired of the web of alliances in the HRE and started with Castille. I played all day yesterday, and ended up forming Spain in 1478, which at the time consists of Portugal, Aragon, Navarre, southern France, all of north Africa, up to and including Beirut, sicilly, sardinia and western Africa.

France has been broken down to nothing through numerous wars with me and my capable ally England, timed with some tactical DOW when France already was in war with the Bungundy-Austria alliance.

After dismantling France, England was beginning to be too powerful on the continent, and through some cavalry raids on their huge armies, and the use of spies in Ireland i have dismantled England, and in the process created a unified Ire(I really love the "fund nationalists/patriots" missions) and an independent Wales and Cornwall.

So all in all I really love spies now, and dont mind the changes in the fabricate claims mission anymore.

Btw I love that you can force the enemy capital to a new location when they are down to two provinces. - bye bye portugal the colonial power

as a funny side note, noone has discovered the americas yet(1520ish), Portugal doesnt exist, France has no acces to the sea anymore, and England has been too preoccupied with war on the mainland. The only contenders I have in the colonial race is Scandinavia and Milan, which almost controls all of Italy.

I turned down the difficulty to easy and have been using random lucky nations(btw how do you realize you are dealing with a lucky nation?) I suspect Milan is lucky, since they have gotten so far(fought toe to toe with Austria and have absorbed Venice. The other contenders is Hungary, which surprisingly still exists, and almost controls all of the Balkans, and Lithuania, which seems to just grow bigger and bigger every year.
Maybe Denmark was too, since they inherited both Norway(which seems to be normal) but also Sweden, and then got to create Scandinavia.